Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 57

• The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

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  America, People, World

  Oscar Wilde, Matthew Hofer, Gary Scharnhorst (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.177, University of Illinois Press

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• It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

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  Space, People, Old Friends

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.44, Prestwick House Inc

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• She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

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  Garden, Dancing, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Nightingale and the Rose”, p.3, Booklassic

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• There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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  Doubt, Genius, Lasts

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.15, Xist Publishing

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• Divorces are made in heaven.

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  Divorce, Heaven, Made

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

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  Sad, Memories, Ambition

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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  Ignorance, Natural

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• The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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  Done, Literature, Singers

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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  Looks, Innocence, Escapade

  Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.84, Collector's Library

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• It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

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  Ideas, Waiting, Painful

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• Life is a great disappointment.

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  Life, Disappointment, Life Is

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.114, Mondial

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• That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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  Art, Writing, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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  Hero, Firsts, Christ

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Ein Granatapfelhaus”, p.103, marixverlag

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• I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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  Forgiving, Enemy, Morbid

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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  Art, Creativity, Thinking

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• A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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  Beautiful, Mother, Pain

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

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• True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

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  Love Is, True Love Is

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• No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.91, 谷月社

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• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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  Time, Age, Life Time

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

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  Sympathy, Pain, Joy

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.65, Oscar Wilde

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• Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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  Giving, One Day, Principles

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• The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

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  Past, Charm, Curtains

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.83, GENERAL PRESS

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• American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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  Girl, Clever, Past

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.197, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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  Sarcastic, House, Political

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1159, GENERAL PRESS

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• Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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  Rebel, Revolt

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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